The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply
by Ken Midkiff
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The author examines the dangers posed by corporate control of agriculture, maintains that big business is more concerned with volume and profits at the risk to consumer health, and argues that supporting local farmers will improve the quality of life for all.Tags
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A well-researched, non-vegetarian look at factory farms and their consequences. A bit too passionate, maybe, but the meat industry is pretty grim stuff to begin with, and the book's argument is very convincing and real.
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Ken Midkiff is the Sierra Club Clean Water Campaign director. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Living on Earth and All Things Considered. A leading expert on the subject of agribusiness and sustainable agriculture, he lives in Columbia, Missouri
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- Nonfiction, Economics, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 338.1 — Society, government, & culture Economics Production Agricultural products
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- HD9415 .M53 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Special industries and trades Agricultural industries
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